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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/zeus"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to Zeus"
	pageCreated: "2026-04-18"

extends ../../../views/hymns/hymnsheet.pug

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/rhea") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Ρεας] #[i To Rhea]
		li.nav-current ΙΕʹ · XV
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/hera") #[i To Hera] #[b(lang="grc") Ηρας] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/zeus-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient fresco of Zeus")

block modern-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/zeus-modern.jpg" alt="Modern painting of Zeus")

block greek
	h1 Διός
	div.offering Θυμίαμα στύρακα
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Ζεῦ πολυτίμητε, Ζεῦ ἄφθιτε, τήνδε τοι ἡμεῖς,
			μαρτυρίην τιθέμεσθα λυτήριον ἠδὲ πρόσευξιν.
			ὦ βασιλεῦ, διὰ σὴν κεφαλὴν ἐφάνη τάδε ῥεῖα,
			γαῖα Θεὰ μήτηρ ὀρέων θ’ ὑψηχέες ὄχθοι,
			καὶ πόντος καὶ πάνθ’, ὁπόσ’ οὐρανὸς ἐντὸς ἑέργει·
			Ζεῦ Κρόνιε, σκηπτοῦχε, καταιβάτα, ὀμβριμόθυμε,
			παντογένεθλ’, ἀρχὴ πάντων, πάντων τε τελευτή,
			σεισίχθων, αὐξητά, καθάρσιε, παντοτινάκτα,
			ἀστραπαῖε, βρονταῖε, κεραύνιε, φυτάλιε Ζεῦ·
			κλῦθί μευ, αἰολόμορφε, δίδου δ’ ὑγίειαν ἀμεμφῆ
			εἰρήνην τε Θεὰν καὶ πλούτου δόξαν ἄμεμπτον.

block english
	h1 To Zeus
	div.offering The fumigation from storax
	p.hymn-english O #[span.theonym(greek="Zeus") Jove] much-honour’d, #[span.theonym(greek="Zeus") Jove] supremely great,#[br]to Thee our holy rites we consecrate,#[br]our pray’rs and expiations, king divine,#[br]for all things round Thy head exalted shine.#[br]The earth is thine, and mountains swelling high,#[br]the sea profound, and all within the sky.#[br]Saturnian king, descending from above,#[br]magnanimous, commanding, sceptred Jove;#[br]all-parent, principle and end of all,#[br]whose pow’r almighty, shakes this earthly ball;#[br]ev’n Nature trembles at  Thy mighty nod,#[br]loud-sounding, arm’d with light’ning, thund’ring God.#[br]Source of abundance, purifying king,#[br]O various-form’d from whom all natures spring;#[br]propitious hear my pray’r, give blameless health,#[br]with peace divine, and necessary wealth.